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534. ARMY, A standing.—[further continued].

He [George III.] has endeavored
to pervert the exercise of the kingly
office in Virginia into a detestable and insupportable
tyranny * * * by [keeping
among us], in time of peace, standing armies
and ships of war.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 10.
(June. 1776)